>>52274305heatran's problem, aside from being fire/steel type in a ML meta that has next to no trouble with such a defensive typing, is that against the things that have coverage moves against it are also things that would be threatened faster...if not for heatran's overall poor quality moveset
attempting to support a series of inefficient charged attacks is fire spin, a 3 DPT / 3.33 EPT fast move that simply doesn't reach anything fast enough and can't threaten farm-downs regardless.
it needs either a full movepool rework to
>an aggressive setup like fire fang & body slam / rock slideor
>incinerate & flame charge / stone edge OR crunch OR earth power to take advantage of times it can achieve alignmentmagma storm being a high-energy nuke does nothing for it
and easier to just push solgaleo anyway while I accept the fact that I will never be a woman